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Advanced Search. Corning, incorporated in August 1877, was the first of Clay County's two seats (Piggott is the other). Corning is the judicial seat for the countyâs Western District and is the commercial and educational center of western Clay County. There is little record of western Clay Countyâs earliest settlers.
The Corning Company was formed in 1835, in Albany, and comprised in its membership Erastus Corning, Thomas W. Olcott, Joseph Fellows, Watts Sherman, Hiram Bostwick, Ansel Bascom, Bowen Whiting, William A. Bradley and Levin I. Gilliss, who associated for the purpose of acquiring and developing lands in this State, particularly in Steuben county, and for such other speculative purposes as were desirable.